"I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further."

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Malcolm Lowry

#Sometimes Quotes

“What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?”
“My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.”
“I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.”
“When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.”
“My god will wipe this country (America) from the face of the earth.”
“...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.”
“If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself.”

Source : Alison Jolly (2001). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”, p.62, Harvard University Press
“I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.”

Source : Paolo Veronese's testimony before the inquisition in Venice, as translated by Charles Yriarte, members.efn.org. July 18, 1573.

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